It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThings have a life of their own, the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. “It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.”
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But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most… he saw fireflies where there were none.
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Things have a life of their own, the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. “It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.”
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What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.
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The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
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The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
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My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.
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Music is important for one’s health.
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Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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I’ll never fall in love again it’s like having two souls at the same time.
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A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
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I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.
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As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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